If you subscribe to a global data plan and use WiFi when you are roaming, then you have to turn off the data roaming when you are using WiFi or you will get charged for the WiFi data. There seems to be no way to set priority for networks (i.e. use WiFi when available over data)

Unfortunately, turning off global data roaming requires going into settings, data manager and turning it off, which isn't convenient. This seems to me to be a pretty basic function that I had in my previous HTC global smartphone...

I will say that so far, I've found Verizon's global data roaming plans to be reasonably priced and work well. just a few dollars a day, which when you are travelling overseas, isn't much.

Verizon quietly dropped its very attractive international data plan in January (the 11th I believe). The international rates are now among the worst especially outside of North America/Carribean/Europe.

Too true! Almost makes the global feature useless. Very unhappy with verizon for this.

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Well, not useless, but only usable unlocked with local SIMs! Actually, I never used the global plan while it existed because it was way too expensive for voice calls compared to local SIMs, so not a big change for me, but obviously very annoying for many, especially those who use data in multiple countries and now have to worry about obtaining and swapping the necessary SIMs.

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